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I UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE- GEORGE G. HOLDERER, OF NAMUR, BELGIUM.

MANUFACTURE OF BEER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 224,186, dated February3, 1880.

Application filed August 12, 1879.

DERER, of Namur, in the Kingdom of Belgium, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in theManufacture of Beer; and I do hereby declarethat the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the mode intice. Y

The object of the invention is to make beer perfectly clear andveffervescent at a low temperature, where it has been heretofore feculentI will it mature.

As soon as the beer has lost its fresh or new taste I cool it down to 32Fahrenheit, at which temperature it is charged with carbonicacid gas byany of the usual methods, and in the progress of cooling the particlesof albumen are separated by isin glass or any equiva-' lent substance.By this simple and inexpensive process a beer that is clear and of fineflavor may be obtained in a short time and at a small expense. If it isdesired to produce a beer but little attenuated, beer is added duringthe first fermentation.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding ofmy invention, what I claim as new is- The process of making beer whichconsists in elfecting the first and second fermeutations at atemperature from 41 to 68 Fahrenheit; secondly, after. it has lost itsnew or fresh taste, in reducing the temperature to about 32 Fahrenheit;and, thirdly, while at this low temperature, charging itwithoarbonic-acid gas, as described. v

. In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing .I have hereunto set my hand.

GEORGE CHARLES HOLDERER.

Witnesses:

' J osEPH BREPST,

DEsrEE DURIEUSE.

